In Supply Chain Management the flow is bi-directional. It is a chained process of coordinating and managing the material, information and funds.
Challenges that will be addressed by SCM in a typical organization
- Management of Inventory, location wise including raw materials, in-process and finished goods.
- Instant Availability of Information by integrating system and process through supply chain by sharing valuable information, demand forecasting of inventory and transportation.
- Configuring Location and number of supplier, facilites in production , distribution and warehouse units into a network.
In Operation
- Planning the distribution process and daily productivty.
- Frequently updated scheduling of production for manufacturing.
- Demand forecast coordinating of all customers and sharing it with all suppliers
- Creating the plan for Sourcing, forcasting the demand and current inventory
- Automating Inbound, transportation and receiving inventory operations.
- Automating Production, material consumption and flow of finished goods.
- Transport and Fufillment activities are included in automated outbound operations.
- Accounting all constraints and order promissing, that includes manufacturing, suppliers, distribution.
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